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And some of those changes were so they meet safety standards and passed the required crash test , that the HMMWV wouldn't pass. Edit ; and this statement in the linked article shows how little the author really looked into these " all the automatics are GM four-speed 4L80Es." Since early...

Right and the Hi's have a collapsable steering collumn that passed FMVSS testing.

Just because it has a u-joint doesn't it was designed to collapse , at best the u-joint could snap. There is a reason they put slip joints on driveshafts to collapse with axle movement , the u-joint only compensates for angle.

By the HMMWV's came into production , roll bars were standard equipment on Jeeps.

Soldiers weren't trying to drive them down the highway at 80 mph , they were limited to set convoy speeds .

The HMMWV also isn't the same as a H1 or the army would have just bought a bunch of H1's , that's a fact you keep fighting.

Well they never released the M151's even after the ROPS upgrade . Now back to the original thread , a magazine article comparing them is hardly credible information . Just take it in the DMV , SOS or tax office who ever registers motor vehicles in your state and you will get laughed out of...